This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe's own annual report for 2024 records total income of 68,598,429.64 euros against total expenditure of 88,572,300.29 euros, a year in which the agency spent roughly twenty million euros more than it took in. Of that expenditure, 79,738,670.01 euros, about 90 percent, went directly to programme work rather than administration.
The report's own finance section states plainly that its figures are drawn from the independently audited financial statements of its parent legal entities, the Evangelisches Werk fur Diakonie und Entwicklung and the Evangelische Zentralstelle fur globale Entwicklung, rather than from a standalone audit of Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe itself. The parent entities' own auditor confirmation notes are published separately once each audit concludes.
A year of spending outpacing income is not unusual for a disaster relief agency, whose expenditure follows need rather than a fixed budget; the gap reflects the scale of the emergencies the agency responded to across its roughly forty partner countries during the 2024 financial year, funded in part by reserves the report does not itself itemise line by line.